Project Management

The Explanation Gap: A PM’s Lesson from a Live Escalation

Introduction I have been managing OTT platform delivery for a few years now – coordinating releases across Android Mobile, iOS, Web, Smart TVs, and Fire TV. Most days, the work is rhythm: sprint cycles, release sign-offs, stakeholder syncs. But every once in a while, something breaks that rhythm, and how you respond in that moment […]

Project Management

When everything is ‘high priority’: How PMs actually decide what gets done

Introduction If you’ve spent even a few months managing a project, you’ve probably heard this countless times: “This is high priority. Can we deliver it by tomorrow?” The tricky part? It’s rarely just one request. It’s multiple stakeholders, each with their own version of “urgent,” all competing for the same team bandwidth. And somewhere in […]